About sauce - for native English speakers
What do you normally say about a sauce when it goes from being uniform to becoming separated into thin liquid and lumps? Do you say “The sauce has separated” or “The sauce has curdled”? Or something else?
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As Deborah says, curdled is a very specific term used for the separation of dairy products. Curds are lumps of dairy-based solid matter which separate from liquid in the presence of heat and/or acids.
More informally, you can say 'go lumpy' for any kind of sauce.
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Broken or separated. Personally, I say broken.
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"Curdled" would be used if the sauce is milk-based or egg-based. If it were a butter-based sauce, we would say that it separated." Hope this helps!
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